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October 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Amid LNP supporters whooping and ongoing allegations of political mud-slinging, the two major party combatants for the seat of Ashgrove faced off at The Gap Football club this morning.
Following an intense period of powder keg politics, which saw LNP leader Campbell Newman label Premier Anna Bligh a “sleazebucket: for drawing his family into a political campaign and the conservative party’s dirty politics dossier was revealed to the public, this was not the most combustible affair.
But this morning, in front of a small crowd dominated by senior residents and a panel which included the Greens’ Sandra Bayley, Mr Newman and Labor’s Kate Jones were as courteous to each other as political adversaries can be.
The arguments were mostly on state issues but there was plenty of lip service paid to the people of Ashgrove.
Mr Newman pledged a new netball club for The Gap while Ms Jones spoke about a new sports hall for The Gap State High School
Ms Jones admitted her fight to retain her seat was a tough task, labelling Mr Newman a “slick experienced politician” as members of the public began addressing the LNP leader as “the future premier of Queensland”.
The former environment minister fielded and easily dispatched questions on green issues, reinforcing her government’s support for Wild Rivers legislation.
Apart from repeating his intent to review that legislation, Mr Newman was embracing of most environmental concerns from the floor, pointing to his green record as Brisbane lord mayor and boasting of the two million trees being planted around the city as part of his council work.
The most controversial local issue raised was the state government’s decision to address the Wardell Street and Samford Road intersection.
Angry residents, carrying placards, called for the government to release a cost benefit analysis into the alterations.
While another resident raised the issue of flyers authorised by the 18-year-old daughter of the state Labor president, which attacked the LNP for putting forward the idea of an overpass at the intersection.
With Ms Jones managing to dodge the questions, Mr Newman mocked the government’s decision to address the intersection as soon as he was announced as the new LNP leader, claiming Labor had neglected to address the issue for years prior.
“What happened was I was endorsed by the LNP as a candidate and within three or four days the public record shows after 20 years of action – bingo! – we get an announcement on an intersection upgrade,” he said.
Mr Newman wasn’t so buoyant when the debate got stuck in the muck of dirty politics.
Both candidates repeated the now-tired party lines, Mr Newman making an impassioned plea for the meeting, and the state election campaign, to start focusing on polices not personalities.
His wife later told media it was this very passion which may have led to him labelling the Premier with the aforementioned unflattering term.
“My darling is the most wonderful man but he is actually very, very human and he is very passionate and you know what, that passion is what I admire most in him,” she said.
“So if he has moments of passion, why would I think that’s bad?”
But a female university student put to Mr Newman that, as a woman, she was offended by his labelling of Anna Bligh as a “sleazebucket”.
Mr Newman alluded to the vicious nature of politics in his response.
“Over the last few months I have been called a lot of things and I’ve also been called other things by the Premier under privilege in the Parliament,” he said.
“No one should be precious about these things, every political figure on occasions has moments and I certainly acknowledge I had one last week at the end of the day though I want this campaign to be about policies, I don’t want it to be about personalities, I want to talk about the issues that concern Queenslanders.”
But Ms Jones accused Mr Newman of standing by his comment and not being sorry for his original attack.
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